Charles Boehler

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-125667

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• Business: New Hamburg Pottery, New Hamburg, , Ontario, Canada
• Name: Xaver Böhler
• Name: Xavier Boehler
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-125660
• Residence: 1847, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Naturalization: 1857, , Canada
• Occupation: 1861, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Potter
• Residence: 1861, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Catholic
• Occupation: 1864, Peel St., New Hamburg, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; potter
• Occupation: 1871, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Potter
• Occupation: 1881, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Potter
• Residence: 1881, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic

Notes:

Xavier Boehler founded the New Hamburg Pottery and settled in Canada around 1848. By 1851 he lived in New Hamburg where he was a potter. By 1854 his pottery was found on a map on the east side of Peel Street. He had a brother Valentine who lived in Egmondville, Ontario.

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New Hamburg....Among the early Catholic inhabitants were: Joseph Hartmann, from Sparenberg, Bavaria, a butcher and tavernkeeper who came in 1847; Sylvester Frank, a brewer, was certainly here in 1842, possibly some years earlier (Sanderl's register); Xavier Boehler, a potter from Alsace.

The Catholic Church in Waterloo County, Book I, by Rev. Theobald Spetz, C. R., D. D., 1916

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Xavier had a apprentice named Henry Schuler 1842-1908 and learned the pottery trade from Xavier Boehler in New Hamburg. By 1868, Henry had opened a pottery in Paris with Peter McGlade but the partnership dissolved in 1873. Henry continued his own pottery, the Paris Stoneware Works, until it was destroyed in an 1884 flood.

Franz married Maryann Yantz 5 Jan 1847, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Maryann was born 1832, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Maria Jans
• Name: Maryann Boehler
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-125661
• Residence: 1847, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Catholic
• Residence: 1881, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic